Thanks Dan, I enjoyed that. I play it a bit faster.
If you don't mind.... Here it is with far too much wind.
Totally forgot where I was about 2mins in. Thanks Romeo! (Dog in background)
Busking Christmas Songs
Very nice, Andy. I honestly don't know what the tempo was in my version - I matched with the Kenny Rogers version. Have you ever heard Mark Lowry's version? He sings this song absolutely beautifully, but at a glacial tempo. It's so slow, it's uncomfortable to listen to if it follows a faster tune.
The Holiday season is nigh (again)!
Here is my rendition of Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas". I don't think that it's a Christmas song or carol in the classical sense, it's a song about belief that just happens to use Christian symbols...
The guitar is a Taylor 355, in a modified drop-D tuning with the 5th string-pair dropped two steps to A. Then I dropped the whole shebang two steps to fit my vocal (such as it is) range. The final tuning is C-G-C-F-G-D.
The video was done on my Android tablet, and I decided not to double track the interlude melody. And yes, my tempo is unsteady--please bear with me; it's my first video and I'm still frightened of the camera.
David
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Here is my rendition of Greg Lake's "I Believe in Father Christmas". I don't think that it's a Christmas song or carol in the classical sense, it's a song about belief that just happens to use Christian symbols...
The guitar is a Taylor 355, in a modified drop-D tuning with the 5th string-pair dropped two steps to A. Then I dropped the whole shebang two steps to fit my vocal (such as it is) range. The final tuning is C-G-C-F-G-D.
The video was done on my Android tablet, and I decided not to double track the interlude melody. And yes, my tempo is unsteady--please bear with me; it's my first video and I'm still frightened of the camera.
David
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David,
This was really beautiful. I love your playing and really liked your singing voice! You looked far more confident than you would lead us to believe, given it's your first video. I hope it won't be your last. And Happy Hanukkah to you!
Suzi
This was really beautiful. I love your playing and really liked your singing voice! You looked far more confident than you would lead us to believe, given it's your first video. I hope it won't be your last. And Happy Hanukkah to you!
Suzi
David,
That was so beautiful that I've already forgotten that you're an Israeli singing a song about Christmas! This was just wonderful -- both the playing and the singing. You should be really proud of yourself.
By the way, if you can somehow talk yourself into schlepping that 12-string to Seattle, that would make a dandy song for the student concert at guitar camp.
That was so beautiful that I've already forgotten that you're an Israeli singing a song about Christmas! This was just wonderful -- both the playing and the singing. You should be really proud of yourself.
By the way, if you can somehow talk yourself into schlepping that 12-string to Seattle, that would make a dandy song for the student concert at guitar camp.
